Karvy Corporate

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Karvy Group
Company type Private
Industry Finance
Founded1983 (1983)
Headquarters Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
C. Parthasarathy (Chairman and Managing Director)
M. Yugandhar (Managing Director)
M. S. Ramakrishna (Director)
Website www.karvy.com [ dead link ]

Karvy Group is a financial services company in India. It was involved in financial services like equity, commodities trading, depository and wealth services and distribution of other financial products. It has its headquarters in Hyderabad. [1] It also had branch offices outside India in Bahrain, Dubai, Malaysia, Philippines and the United States. Scams perpetrated during 2019 involving Karvy Stock Broking Limited (KSBL), a group company led to the filing of criminal cases against the Chairman and others. This led to the banning of KSBL by the regulator.

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History

Karvy Group was established in the year 1983 [1] and was headed by C. Parthasarathy as Chairman. [2] [3] The group at one time had more than 30,000 employees, spanning 900 offices in about 400 cities and towns. In the mid-1990s, Karvy forayed into stockbroking and advisory businesses. [4] [5] Later, in the early 2000s, Karvy Corporate ventured into commodity trading. With the introduction of currency trading, Karvy Corporate was also in the business of Forex trading.[ citation needed ]

Business

Karvy Group provided financial services like finance, insurance, broking, investment banking, loans for individuals and businesses. Karvy started its ecommerce business on Karvyclick.com [6] to enable small and medium enterprises to go online for selling their products in various eCommerce platforms. [7]

Karvy Data Management Services, a subsidiary of Karvy Group, has acquired the call center business of Media Matrix Worldwide [8] Ltd for Rs 30 crore in 2017.

Karvy Group has following nineteen subsidiary companies under it. [9]

Divested companies

Awards and Recognitions

Chairman of the diversified financial services group - Karvy, C. Parthasarathy received the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ [11] 2017 award from the Telangana government. The award was given for his contribution to IT sector in the state apart from employment generation.

Criminal cases involving Karvy group companies

In November 2019, Securities and Exchange Board of India barred Karvy Stock Broking Limited (KSBL) from purchasing shares in delivery and also accepting new clients pending a forensic audit. SEBI found out that Karvy had defaulted Rs. 2000 crore of investor funds by pledging the securities holdings of its customers. The action was based on a detailed report by National Stock Exchange. The company had sold excess securities (not available in their DP account) worth Rs 485 crore through nine related clients till 31 May 2019. They further transferred excess securities worth Rs 162 crore to six of the nine related clients until 31 May 2019. Later, it tried to repurchase the securities worth 228.07 crores to cover up for the shortfall between June - September 2019. An amount of 1096 crore was transferred to its group concern Karvy Realty Private Limited during the period of April 2016 - October 2019. [12] [13]

In related investigation, Enforcement Directorate arrested C. Parthasarathy on 27 Jan 2022. [14] They were released on bail subsequently.

On 25 November 2022, a fresh criminal case was registered against C. Parthasarathy, the Chairman of Karvy Reality (India) Private Limited for cheating few investors from Kolkata and Kerala by engaging to sell plots in 2019, in an old real estate venture of 2009. [15]

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